Since Halloween is just around the corner, New Times has a story about some of the strange and spooky things that have happened to rockers over the years. The story only has three examples, by James Valentine of Maroon 5, Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, and an Alice Cooper-Joe Perry twofer. The problem is that these aren't very scary ghost stories. Although I'm sure the artists are quite sincere in their beliefs, as you read the stories, other more logical explanations for the spookiness automatically come to mind. Alice Cooper no doubt believes that the noisy old house he and Perry stayed in--both fresh from rehab--had a ghost. But he doesn't seem to question why the house in which Amityville Horror was written (not the house in which the story allegedly took place) should itself be haunted. That's "haunting by association."
Come on rock stars, you must have better ghost stories than these.
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